Essays about: "the Anthropocene"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 87 essays containing the words the Anthropocene.

1. 16. The Midstream Collective / Collective Midstream

   University essay from Konstfack/Industridesign

   Author : Julian Gasson; [2022]
   Keywords : water; hydrofeminism; anthropocene; road snow sludge; fungi; mycofiltration; mycology;

   Abstract : How do we hold each other through a change of phase? This is the seminal question asked in this thesis as it explores networked systems populated by urban metabolisms and waste streams. Using an embodied feminist framework, this paper attempts to highlight short comings in the current treatment of road snow sludge in the metropolitain areas of Stockholm, Sweden and proposes the use of a systemic, intergrated mycological strategy to filter and detoxify snow-melt-water before it re-enters natural bodies of water. READ MORE

3. 17. The Circular Economy Discourse among Dutch Policy Actors : Discussing the prospects for the Circular Economy in the Netherlands

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Niels van de Gronden; [2022]
   Keywords : Circular Economy; Discourse Analysis; Narrative Policy Framework; Circular Society; Environmental Policy Framework;

   Abstract : The Circular Economy (CE) has quickly become a very popular discourse and is considered to be the solution to the manifold socio-economic challenges of the Anthropocene. What this actually means, however, is still unclear and contested, as different actors and sectors pursue a different degree of ecological, economic, political and social transformation. READ MORE

4. 18. Intra-Action – Entanglements Within and Beyond Environmental Photography

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

   Author : Sofia Linnéa Emelie Doepel; [2021-01-15]
   Keywords : Environmental photography; cameraless photography; landscape photography; feminist posthumanism; posthumanism; ecofeminism; representation; anthropocene; phenomenology; quantum field theory; instrumentalism; environmental issues;

   Abstract : This essay is an attempt to approach the genre of both landscape and environmental photography, to turn them inside-out, to dissect and to deconstruct them through ecology, ecofeminism, feminist posthumanism and critical theory regarding the photographic medium. Throughout the essay I will focus on several artists and bodies of works that fall into this broad category of landscape and environmental photography. READ MORE

5. 19. Metamorphosis - Making plastic transparent

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Rosanna Rydholm; [2021]
   Keywords : Lysekil; Bohuslän; Sweden; Plastic pollution; Transformation; Industrial site; Public building; Public learning facility; Plastic waste building; Anthropocene; Environmental architecture; Reuse.;

   Abstract : In this thesis project I try to make visible the complex problems behind the plastic pollution crisis, the skewed ideas of synthetic plastic and recycling we as consumers are taught, and in what way architecture can help make these systems visible. This is achived through a design method of growth and transformation using plastic waste to create a building that uncovers what would otherwise not bee seen. READ MORE

6. 20. City of the Anthropocene : A Case Study of Lynetteholm, Copenhagen.

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Amalie Mørk; [2021]
   Keywords : urban development; sustainability; ecological modernization; human development; urban regime theory; urban planning; local governance; Lynetteholm;

   Abstract : This paper is a study upon a global vision of a sustainable future, to local implementation of environmentally effective solutions, in contemporary urban planning projects. The purpose was to illuminate a gap between the global rationality of sustainability and local rationality of sustainability and to identify the effect it has on sustainable outcomes. READ MORE